History of the Great American FortunesModern Library, 1936 - 732 páginas For contents and other editions, see Author Catalog. |
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... give them railroad charters and bountiful largess . He will seek to know how , as specifically as the records allow , they got together that money . Their nominal methods are of no weight ; it is the portrayal of their real , basic ...
... give them railroad charters and bountiful largess . He will seek to know how , as specifically as the records allow , they got together that money . Their nominal methods are of no weight ; it is the portrayal of their real , basic ...
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Gustavus Myers. You give nine hundred thousand dollars a year to carry the mails to Cali- fornia ; and Vanderbilt compels the contractors to give him $ 56,000 a month to keep quiet . This is the effect of your subventions . Under your ...
Gustavus Myers. You give nine hundred thousand dollars a year to carry the mails to Cali- fornia ; and Vanderbilt compels the contractors to give him $ 56,000 a month to keep quiet . This is the effect of your subventions . Under your ...
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... give them the franchise for a surface line on Third avenue ; what George Law and other capitalists had done , in 1852 , in bribing the aldermen to give them the franchises for street car lines on Second avenue and Ninth avenue . Only ...
... give them the franchise for a surface line on Third avenue ; what George Law and other capitalists had done , in 1852 , in bribing the aldermen to give them the franchises for street car lines on Second avenue and Ninth avenue . Only ...
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PREFACE TO THE 1936 EDITION | 19 |
PREFACE TO THE 1909 EDITION | 25 |
CHAPTER I | 31 |
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acres amount Astor bankers banking became bill bonds bribed bribery brought capital capitalists cent Chapter charged coal commercial Commission Congress corporations corruption defrauded directors Erie Railroad extortion fact force fortune franchises frauds fraudulent funds Gould and Fisk Government Harriman House hundred Huntington immense industrial interests Interstate Commerce Commission investigating committee issue J. P. Morgan John Jacob Astor labor land grant large number legislative Legislature loot magnates manufacturers ment merchants methods millions of dollars multimillionaire officials owners ownership Pacific Railroad Company paid passed Pennsylvania plunder political profits propertied classes Railway rich road Sage secured selling Session shares sold Southern Pacific Railroad stockholders street swindle theft tion trade transaction treasury trust Union Pacific Railroad United States Senate Vanderbilt Vanderbilt family vote wages wealth William workers York Central York Central Railroad York City